Episodes

Episode 49

Robin was pressured to join the boy's basketball team by her father in middle school. It didn't go too well. We hang out with a couple guys really trying to impress their friend's daughter, kids in a faulty pool and of course Michael Jordan and his son, Kim.

Oct. 26, 2015

Episode 48

Brian had a hard time getting the nerve to visit gay bars. Eventually he made it to one in NYC, but it wasn't the ideal experience. We find a beer cooler apartment, a guy who can't stop backing up and a weird, real-life game of Clue.

Episode 45

Val thinks of herself as a late bloomer, which is why her friends were surprised by her middle school hickey. We meet a psycho little girl, suicidal theater director and a punk band who is frankly terrible with children.

Episode 43

Jefferson has a sexual awakening after his separation from his wife. We visit a polite orgy hostess, enthusiastic masturbators, underwear parties, sad bros and sex restaurants. Apologies for some audio strangeness during the story. The entire story is audible, but there are some clear level differences.

May 11, 2015

Episode 42

Lori's mother constantly body shamed her. Thank goodness she has the therapeutic outlet of storytelling to work out the years of torment. We lighten the mood by visiting a Tom Sawyer-like Jesus, angry aunts and unintentionally funny accident victims. Enjoy!

Episode 39

It took a creepy existential horror to make Claire realize her deep love for her sister as a teenager. The improvisers on today's episode are very silly and so is the improv. We meet a vicious mother, an unlikely bicyclist and exiled children.

Episode 36

Jake Hart found himself unceremoniously tossed out on the street a few years back. He found solace and strange romance in his local bar. We visit some terrible roommates, BB Kings Bar and Grill as well as a drunken nomad.

Episode 31

Steve Heisler joins us to talk about what turned him off of computer science, forever damning him to the world of pop culture journalism. We join a global ape uprising and have fun saving a professor from never existing!

Nov. 12, 2014

Episode 30

Karolena's day started off in a very fly way. A bunch of vomit and frightened Japanese tourists later... Anyway, the improvisers visit some mythical creatures and some supervillain divorcées. Take a listen!

Episode 28

Emily Johnson never thought of herself as the kind of girl that participates in a pageant. But that's exactly what she did in college, and if anything, it just confirmed that she is not that kind of girl. We improvisers visit a robot family, Mad Men catacombs ghosts, the boys of Boeing and more!

Oct. 13, 2014

Episode 27

It's the first musical improv episode of Can't Make This Up! Anna Roisman is back to recount her harrowing experience getting her cartilage pierced for a web series. We visit a Patch Adams dad, hardworking groundskeeper and cop with stars in his eyes, among others. Our accompanist is the mega talented Toby Singer.

Episode 25

Asher Novek tells us about getting broken up with before he got a chance to pull the plug himself. We visit shady car renters, Red Lobster islands and all sorts of terrible break-ups. Come join the fun!

Episode 23

Anita Flores returns to tell a very fresh story about not so fresh bagels and the fresh celebrities who refuse them! The other improvisers and I do scenes about brunches in the park and penning letters from prison. Idyllic.

Episode 21

The cast of Electoral Dysfunction joins me for a very special episode of meta moments, impressions and ceiling Star of Davids. Robert A. George tells a story about standing up to Newt Gingrich, and we make up a bunch of stuff. Like a whole bunch. It's a long one.

Episode 13

Episode 12

Susan tells us about hiding her pregnancy from her family and describes her feelings looking back on the decisions she made as a young adult. We do our best to respectfully pull the fun we can from a powerful, moving story!